[Pkg-pascal-devel] help needed

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Paul,
On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 22:49 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 01-12-15 22:44, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > I used the attached patch, but any subsequent build of the fpcsrc/ide
> > without defining SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH fails to use the current date. Even
> > forcing SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH while building the IDE, still results in the
> > "about" window showing the timestamp of my fpc changelog, i.e. the value
> > of SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH of the compiling of fpcsrc/compiler/globals.pas. Do
> > you have a clue why this code is not dynamically checking for the
> > environmental variable, but instead seems to check the variable once.
> > 
> > I thought I finally understood how it worked, but apparently not.
> 
> Never mind, the string in the "about" window is apparently pick up
> somewhere else, that I already patch (I will figure it out).
> 
> fp -v shows the date I expect.
I did a quick code review and your patch looks really fine. So I think as you
figured it out, this is coming forme elsewhere.
I'm confident this patch can be taken by upstream. We should open a ticket in
their bug tracker.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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